The Picasso Museum is a monographic centre dedicated to the life and works of Pablo Picasso. A true testimony of the bounds of the artist with the city. Located in the old town at C/Montcada it is, without a doubt, one of the most visited museums in Barcelona.

It is located at the Aguilar palace, an exceptional example of Catalan bourgeois dwelling, in the aristocratic Montcada street; built in medieval times, right in the heart of La Ribera district. The museum holds the most significant collection of Pablo Picasso's early works, in particular the ones he made between 1895 and 1904, the years during which the young artist lived in our city. The Museum houses more than three thousands six hundred works, divided into three sections: paintings and drawing, engravings and ceramics.

The works from the period 1895 to 1897 show him reaching a mastery of the craft, which encouraged him to enter two key oil-paintings from this period in official competitions: The First Communion (1896) and Science and Charity (1897).
His relations with the Catalan avant-garde, Modernism, can be seen in a series of portraits of his friends from the bar "Els Quatre Gats", which was the centre of artistic and intellectual life at the time.
Picasso later travelled to Paris, which can be seen through the clearly Post-Impressionist style of his works and a strident use of colour, such as in Nana and Margot (Paris, 1901). This polychrome period was followed by his blue period (1901-1904), dominated by the use of only blue tonalities, which are displayed in works as important as The Madman, or The Abandoned, and by his rose period (1905), which is illustrated in The Portrait of Ms. Canals.
Also noteworthy is the very important collection of works from 1917, the year of his collaboration with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the paintings of 1957, the famous serial of Las Meninas.

New acquisitions and donations have expanded the permanents collections. The Museum is currently undertaking a policy of temporary exhibitions dedicated to the artist and his environment. With more than 800.000 visitors a year, it is one of the most visited museums in.

The Museum has a library with significant bibliographic and documental works, a shop and a coffee-terrace with the same opening hours as the museum (from Tuesday to Saturday and on holidays of 10 am till 8 pm and on Sundays from 10 am till 3 pm.